The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-07
THE COMING coLoRED VOTE.
1t Bids Fair to Go for Candidates of the
Democratic PARTY
From The Nem YORK Star

~ o@No ali 10 70 lOr Can0lCateS OF the
Democratic Party.
From the NeU York Star
The Mike" Cregan Eruption is not the
only one in the Republican ranks, and while
the former is important, as far as individu-
atty is concerned, the latter affects a distinct
element of the body polite. The truth of
the matter is that the white Republican
managers of this county, as well as else
where, are going to have considerable
trouble in keeping their hitherto loyal col
ored allies in the traces. and that the days
or resolutions and non-action with the col
ored people are past. The spirit of revolt
does not exist among the cOlored citizens of
this city and State alone, but, as if by pre-
arrangement, has cropped out simultaneous
ly throughout the country. In MasSachu-
sets, where the colored vote in a close cleo
ton is the balance of power, the colored
people will demand a colored State Auditor
this fab, although they have a representa-
tive annually in the State Legislature and
Boston Common Council. The Boston
Adrocate, the only colored paper published
in New England, in its issue of May p
says: We must present hold front in the
coming election, and we must have more
representation. We shall fight
on this principle until we realize
our hopes" The recent general ignor-
ing of the colored people of Boston by the
Republican Governor (Ames) of Massachu-
sets upon the occasion of Queen Kapiolani's
visit to the Hub" tends to intensity the
prejudice against Gov. Ames, whom the
colored Bostonians have never forgiven for
using his influence against the confirmation
of Hon. Edwin G.. Walker, the eminent
colored lawyer, and the most prominent
negro in the East, when he was nominated
few years ago for judgeship by Gov.
Benjamin F. Butler As a sample
of the political independence of the
colored vote in Boston it is but necessary
to cite the fact that Democratic Congress
man Leopold Morse has always received the
united support of the colored vote. Elk
State Senator John F. Andrew, son of the
late war Governor of Massachusetts,, John
A. Andrew, in his gubernatorial campaign
last year against the then Lieut. Gov. Ames,
was the recipient of the colored vote 1t is
also fact that Mayor Hugh OBrien, of
Boston, an Irishnlan, Roman Catholic and a
Democrat, has been largely supported by
the colored voters of the Eastern metropolis.
The situation is the same in the West.
In this State Gov. Hill received one-third
of the colored vote, and from present APP
pearances the detection in the Republican
ranks as far as the colored auxiliary is con-
cerned will be large enough in 1888 to defeat
the tickets be headed Cleveland and Blaine,
respectively. From conversation with in
tellfgent colored men of this city, Star re-
porter CLEANS the cause of discomfort in New
York to be founded upon the fact that
Robert Ray Hamilton, George Peabody,
Col George Bliss and Judge Fitch, ignore
the rank and file of the colored voter, and by
the positions of captaincies and a few dol
lars for convincing" subsidize to
ola
ored leaders who are looking out
for themselves and their white
Republican political employees instead OF
the race at large Heretofore, in view of
the fact that the Eleventh Assembly dis
trict in this city, known as the ''gilt-edged
district contains 100 colored voters, the
other districts have waited for some action
to be made in this section for the better
ment of the political condition of the race.
But having waited until patience ceased to
be virtue, the word will be passed along
the line to give the vote this fall and 1888
where it will do the most good for the race,
But the Eleventh Assembly district
will speedily drop into the line of reform
within the past few months the rank and
file have not been inactive, and efforts will
be made to relegate the Union League ap-
pointed colored leaders to private life, and
the reins of political authority over the ne
gro vote will be placed in the hands of col
ored leaders appointed by the colored people.
As an earnest of this new movement, the
division of the colored vote last fall, and
the powerlesS action of the self-constituted
leaders to prevent the same, show that the
rank and file have arisen.
The hypocrisy of the white Republican
leaders of this county, the conservative
course of President Cleveland to the colored
people at large, the possible danger of
Blaines .'bloody shirt" platform to the ne
gro of the South, should Blaine be elected in
1888, have aroused the colored vote, and
created the most friendly feeling among col
ored leaders at large and the rank and file
of the race for the present executive, and
Judging from the sentiment of the leading
colored journals of the country, and the ex-
pressions of the most unbiased and prOmi-
nent colored men of the United States,
when the Republican roll is called in 1888
there will be a large number of oolored
mems names missing from the Republican
adjutants roll.
The views of analytical colored leaders
who are interested in their race are synony-
nous with the following expression made by
one of the most prominent and influential
negro criterions in the country:
''The day has passed when the colored
voters of this country can longer be led
around by the nose by Frederick Douglass,
Bruce, Lynch Langston, Smalls and few
others of the race who, for their obedience
to white Republicans, have been rewarded
with Office, and the rest of the race ignored.
Young men of our race have come to the
front to stay. The war for our equal rights
must be solved by young colored men; men
of spirit, intelligence, probity and energy.
Hackney politicians of our race must and
shall retire. Senator Ingalls, and other milk.
and-water Republicans must understand
that they arrogate too much to themselves
when they dare to say that Frederick Doug
lass is the most prominent and intellectual
negro in the world. They forget that Alex
ander Dumas, for prominence, and Prof. j.
C. Price, for oratory, are still in the land OF
the living. But any black man is promi-
nent with the white Republican leaders if
he is political serf to them.
The colored people, rank and file,
will henceforth make the. negro
leaders, and they will be honest young men.
+ = y Had Mr. Blaine been elected in
1884 his bloody shirt policy would have
caused incalculable damage to the Southern
negro, by intensifying the feeling against
him and antagonizing the Southern white
element for Republican political capital.
The bloody shirt issue has already been bap'
tiled by negro blood at Hamburg and other
sections of the South, and the massacres
have been winked at by the white Republic
cans, because they could and have, gained
capital at the expense of the negroes lives
SIT is possible that white Republicans
have caused these outrages to occur. A
.a,.;r,,e ,bonon iS uaafied in this country III